Beware the Cat: The First English Novel by Michael Flachmann, William A. Ringler Jr., William Baldwin

Beware the Cat: The First English Novel

Michael Flachmann, William A. Ringler Jr., William Baldwin

160 pages first pub 1533 (editions)

fiction classics challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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Beware the Cat (1533) is the earliest original piece of long prose fiction in English. It has the distinction of being the first English "novel," far surpassing in narrative sophistication such immediate predecessors as Elyot's Image of Governance...

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